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The Hemispheric Institute and the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution present:

Indigenous Cinema ’22—Images to Postpone the End of the World

Hemispheric Institute, November 11 – December 12, 2022

Following Ailton Krenak's invitation to consider the interdependence between all living beings, we look at what nourishes and sustains us: from the primary bond to land and water, to acts of healing and ceremony. Beyond denunciation, these films delve into Indigenous conceptions of territoriality and spirituality, with images and sounds that channel vitality, connection and relationality in the face of the multiple threats to our collective wellbeing. Can we retrace the pathways, listen to the seeds, to the rivers, and the poets? Can we petition the spirits and sing in our own languages?

1 Week One
November 11 – 14, 2022

Title:	Ixim Ulew
Release Date:	2022
Runtime:	3:30 minutes
Director:	Tzutu Kan and Daniel "El Suchi" García
Language:	Tzútujil Maya
Countries/Territories:	Guatemala
Community/Nation:	Tzútujil Maya
Synopsis:	13 years of Mayan Music, 13 years of resistance. Ixim Ulew is the land of Corn, the sacred Mayan lands. The song describes us going to plant seeds and the different phases of growth of the sacred milpa until harvest. The song calls on the different ethnic groups that make up the social fabric of the Mayan peoples. Ixim is the Corn, Ulew is the land, and corn is planted from north to south. Corn revolutionized this civilization and was created by the Mayan woman. With the help of insects, birds, and animals, she created one of the first genetic fusions capable of taming the sacred Corn, and with this she sustains her peoples. “The song is in honor of my mother and grandmother María Cox, since they were the ones who taught me how to plant corn.”
Director Bio:	Tzútu Kan means "the blossoming of the serpent" and refers to the Tzútujil nation. Tzútu Kan was raised by the teachings of his grandfather Nicolás Chavaja and a group of artists from the Mayan plateau. Since 2010, he has been planting new proposals for the rehabilitation of languages in the Mayan lands through his rap, creating a unique fusion of the Mayan word and hip hop culture. The Mayan Hip Hop Project mixes three languages—Tzútujil, Kiche, and Kaqchikel—and has attracted the attention of academics and universities, including Vanderbilt University, Kentucky University, UCLA, the Smithsonian Institution, and Chico State. In 2016, he participated in the multilingual Estruendo Festival in the Chopo Museum at UNAM (Mexico), and has been invited to participate in various festivals throughout the world. He is currently working with producers Daniel García, Danilo Rodríguez, and KC Porter.

Title:	A vacina
Release Date:	2021
Runtime:	9:00 minutes
Director:	Benito Miquiles & Mauricio Torres
Language:	Portuguese and Sateré-Mawé with English/Portuguese subtitles
Countries/Territories:	Brazil
Community/Nation:	Sateré-Mawé
Synopsis:	Benito Miquiles and a group of Sateré-Mawé warriors participate in a ritual in preparation for the retaking of a portion of their traditionally occupied territory. The area lies outside the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Land located on the border of Amazonas and Pará states, which has been repeatedly invaded by land grabbers and loggers since it was officially demarcated in 1986.
Director Bio:	Benito Miquiles is a young leader of the Sateré-Mawé people. Born on the Andirá river, within his people's demarcated territory, he moved to Parintins in the state of Amazonas, where he graduated in Indigenous Education from the Federal University of Amazonas. Today he lives in a village on the Mamuru river, where he teaches and fights for the recognition of the undemarcated portion of his territory, against the advance of land grabbers and loggers. Mauricio Torres has a Masters and Doctorate in Human Geography from the University of São Paulo, and conducts research on territorial conflicts involving traditional peoples and communities in the Amazon. He is a professor at the Amazonian Institute of Family Farming at the Federal University of Pará.

Title:	New York, just another city/ New York, petei tetã ve rive
Release Date:	2019
Runtime:	18 minutes
Director:	André Lopes & Joana Brandão
Language:	Portuguese & English with Portuguese/English subtitles (selectable)
Countries/Territories:	Brazil/US
Community/Nation:	Guaraní Mbyá
Synopsis:	A young leader and filmmaker, Patrícia Ferreira has been recognized for the documentaries she has been making with her people, the Guaraní Mbyá. When she is invited to discuss her work at one of the world's largest ethnographic film festivals, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, she comes across exhibitions, debates, and attitudes that make her think about the "juruá" people’s world, contrasting it with the Guaraní’s modes of existence.
Director Bio:	André Tupxi Lopes is an anthropologist and filmmaker, conducting his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, with a research internship at New York University. He is a founding member of Ijã Mytyli Cinema Collective of Manoki and Myky Indigenous people, with whom he has been working since 2008. He has participated in the training of Indigenous filmmakers from seven different communities in Brazil, with whom he has directed and produced collaborative documentaries over the past 10 years. Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy is an Indigenous teacher and audiovisual director of the Mbyá-Guaraní/RS people. In 2007, she co-founded the Coletivo Mbyá-Guaraní de Cinema. She is currently finishing her first authorial feature film, Nhemongueta Kunhã Mbaraete, a compilation of 16 video-letters during the COVID-19 pandemic, co-directed by Graciela Guaraní, Sophia Pinheiro, and Michele Kaiowá. Her films have already circulated in several festivals in Brazil and around the world, winning several awards, including: Honorable Mention at XIV FICA (2012), Cora Coralina Award for best feature at XIII FICA (2011), Best Feature/Medium Award at III CachoeiraDoc, and Honorable Mention at Forumdoc.bh 2011. Joana Brandão Tavares is Professor of Video Arts at the Institute of Arts, Humanities and Sciences at the Federal University of Southern Bahia and holds a PhD in gender and feminism studies from the Federal University of Bahia. She received the Adelmo Genro Filho Award for best master's dissertation in journalism in 2013 for her comparative study of Indigenous community communication and journalistic coverage of the Indigenous reality. In 2019, she was a visiting researcher at the Department of Anthropology at New York University and also received professional training in digital photography, television screenwriting, and cinematography at NYU's School of Professional Studies. As a filmmaker, she has directed three short documentaries. For her last film, she received the Marsh Short Film Prize for best short documentary from the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK).

Title:	Tiam/The Return (El retorno)
Release Date:	2021
Runtime:	16:00 minutes
Director:	Eriberto Gualinga
Language:	Kichwa and Spanish
Countries/Territories:	Ecuador
Community/Nation:	Kichwa
Synopsis:	In February 2020, in the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon, we were celebrating our Great Cultural and Traditional Festival Uyantza Raymi (the Uyantza Festival). Suddenly, news came that a dangerous virus called COVID-19 was spreading around the world and that a state of emergency had been declared throughout the country. At the same time, massive flooding devastated my community. When people started getting sick, one family decided to leave and go deep into the jungle for protection, embarking on their journey of reconnection.
Director Bio:	Eriberto Gualinga is a member of the Kichwa community of the Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He has a degree in Film from the University of the Arts of Guayaquil. He is a photographer, musician, and activist who began making films in his twenties, when he began to document and tell the story of the defense of the jungle following the incursion of a state-backed oil company and the military into his territory. He has directed six documentary shorts, which have won multiple awards at festivals, and a feature, Helena of Sarayaku.

2 Week Two
November 18 – 21, 2022

Title:	"2050" feat. Jhon Jota "el indio del Rap" (Nasa)
Release Date:	2016
Runtime:	3:00 minutes
Director:	Jhon Jota
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles
Countries/Territories:	Colombia
Community/Nation:	Nasa
Synopsis:	The song "2050" is the story of a young Indigenous man who, in the midst of a daydream, sees the future and tells of the devastation of the environment generated by the consumerist and exploitative lifestyle of the current economic system. "2050" is an apocalyptic story told from the Indigenous worldview in Colombia, where there is concern about the loss of what is essential for the survival of communities. It is also a call for raising awareness about natural resources. The song proposes the return to a spiritual life that allows for respecting the spirits of nature and defending mother earth as an alternative solution.
Director Bio:	Jhon Jota, also known as "El indio del Rap," belongs to the Nasa Indigenous community and, at 23 years of age, is one of the greatest proponents of Colombian Indigenous Rap. Jhon Jota is from the Toribio Cauca reservation, where he has been making music since 2014 using lyrics of resistance and dignity, in order to strengthen and protect Mother Earth and the Indigenous worldview, without forgetting love and heartbreak as transversal elements in all of humanity. This transgressive exploration of his own context and culture has allowed him to transcend the borders of his reservation and expose the problems of his community in different national and international festivals.

Title:	Seed Mother: Coming Home
Release Date:	2021
Runtime:	7:25 minutes
Director:	Mateo Hinojosa and Rowen White
Language:	English
Countries/Territories:	US
Community/Nation:	Quechua, Mohawk
Synopsis:	In this poetic embodiment of the Indigenous Seed Rematriation movement, seeds show their full beauty for us to fall in love—and so protect them. We witness animated visions of the Mohawk cosmogenealogy and are all called to return to relationship with our seeds, to join this Indigenous women-led movement.
Director Bio:	Mateo Hinojosa is a mestizo Quechua Bolivian-American storyteller based in California. Specializing in channeling collective voices and visions into creative expression, he has facilitated collaborative audiovisual productions and cross-cultural storytelling workshops with Native American youth, Argentine transgender prisoners, and climate justice activists. His feature documentary, Spectacular Movements, was co-created with young Aymara actors reviving the spirits of the recent Bolivian revolution with theater and street interventions. As Media Director at The Cultural Conservancy since 2013, he has produced numerous documentaries, community education experiences, and the Native Seed Pod podcast. He is also director of the Woven Path production company. Rowen White is a Seed Keeper and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for Indigenous seed and food sovereignty. She is the director and founder of Sierra Seeds, an innovative organic seed stewardship organization focusing on local seeds and education based in Nevada City, CA. White is the National Project Coordinator and advisor for the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network, which is an initiative of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at leveraging resources to support tribal food sovereignty projects. The mission of the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network is to nourish and assist the growing Seed Sovereignty Movement across Turtle Island. White's passion is in teaching and mentoring. She has developed many curricula which focus on a holistic, Indigenous permaculture-based approach to seed stewardship, which honors the many layers of seed culture—from practical hands-on skills, cultural context, and memory—with guiding principles that are rooted in an Indigenous ecology of relations. She teaches and facilitates creative seed stewardship immersions around the country within tribal and small farming communities. She weaves stories of seeds, food, culture, and sacred Earth stewardship on her blog, Seed Songs.

Title:	“ᎠᏍᎦᏯ ᎦᏅᎯᏓ" (Long Man)
Release Date:	2021
Runtime:	14:26 minutes
Director:	Joseph Erb
Language:	Cherokee
Countries/Territories:	US
Community/Nation:	Cherokee
Synopsis:	This animation is a cultural look at the importance of water to the Cherokee people and people in northeastern Oklahoma and the Cherokee Nation. It deals with the Cherokee word for river being ᎠᏍᎦᏯ ᎦᏅᎯᏓ (longman). Rivers are spirits and living beings that are respected by cultural Cherokee people. These waters are now being polluted at a high rate.
Director Bio:	Joseph Lewis Erb (Producer/Director, Cherokee Nation Citizen) is a computer animator, film producer, educator, language technologist, and artist. He earned his MFA degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Erb created The Beginning They Told, the first Cherokee animation in the Cherokee language. He used his artistic skills to teach Muscogee Creek and Cherokee students how to animate traditional stories. Most of this work is created in the Cherokee language. He has spent many years working on projects that will expand the use of Cherokee language in technology and the arts. David Crawler (Narrator/Cultural Expert, Cherokee Nation Citizen) works in the preservation and teaching of the Cherokee language. As a first-language Cherokee speaker, Crawler has served the Cherokee Nation (CN) for more than a decade in the tribe's language department working on a number of language projects. He was instrumental in translating the CN Constitution into the Cherokee language, and is the primary translator and storyteller for Cherokee First Children's Activity Books. He has assisted in animated films with the Cherokee language, and has worked on notable translation projects for Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Crawler is also a part of the Cherokee Language Consortium, helping to translate modern words into Cherokee syllabary.

Title:	Shash Jaa' (Bears Ears)
Release Date:	2016
Runtime:	26 minutes
Director:	Angelo Baca
Language:	English/Diné (Navajo)
Countries/Territories:	Dinetah (Navajo Territory, US)
Community/Nation:	Diné/Hopi
Synopsis:	Shásh Jaa’ (Bears Ears) encompasses more than 1.9 million acres of southeastern Utah wilderness and is sacred land to local Native American tribes. The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition is an effort of 5 different tribal nations (Navajo, Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, Hopi, Zuni) coming together to protect this pristine ecological area from natural resource extraction development and environmental destruction. This documentary short follows director Angelo Baca (Diné/Hopi) and his grandmother, Helen Yellowman (Diné), and the developing coalition’s efforts to convince the Obama administration to make this area a designated National Monument with a co-management plan working in partnership with these tribes.
Director Bio:	Angelo Baca is a cultural activist, scholar, filmmaker, and recent PhD graduate in the Department of Anthropology at New York University, where he focused his research on Bears Ears National Monument. He is also the cultural resources coordinator at Utah Diné Bikéyah, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the defense and protection of culturally significant ancestral lands. Shash Jaa’: Bears Ears is Baca’s latest award-winning film. He has worked with Patagonia on the public lands film Public Trust about the current administration’s assault on Indigenous and public lands. Baca’s work reflects his commitment to collaborative research with Indigenous communities on equal and respectful terms and a long-standing dedication to both Western and Indigenous knowledge. He continues to focus on the protection of Indigenous communities by empowering local and traditional knowledge-keepers in the stewardship of their own cultural practices and landscapes.

3 Week Three
November 25 – 28, 2022

Title:	"Sin Combate" feat. Anahi Mariluán
Release Date:	2022
Runtime:	3:00 minutes
Director:	María Manzanares
Language:	Mapudungun w/ Spanish subtitles
Countries/Territories:	Argentina
Community/Nation:	Mapuche
Synopsis:	Sin Combate is inspired by the Mapuche creation story, Treng Treng y Kay Kay, which expresses the intense powers of nature in her many forms. Treng Treng embodies the earth, Kay Kay is the embodied form of water, and in a Mapuche worldview these forces are in a constant battle to maintain equilibrium.
Director Bio:	María Manzanares was born in Furilovche in 1981. At the age of 18, she moved to Buenos Aires to study at the Higher School of Advertising Creatives while also working at an advertising agency. In 2001, she traveled to Mexico, where she initially tried to work in advertising, only to confirm something she already knew: she wanted to tell stories that had nothing to do with marketing. Finally, her participation in a Zapatista meeting in Chiapas made her rethink everything she had learned about the dynamics of the capitalist system. The time she spent outside the country made her aware of the importance of water and of caring for all forms of life. In 2002 she returned to her hometown. Today she works at the Center for the Production of Audiovisual Content (CPCA) of the University of Río Negro. In 2015 she met the Mapuche artist Anahí Mariluan and made the award-winning video clip "We Are Not Alone" (Bariloche Audiovisual Festival). She has shown her work throughout Argentina, Peru, and Chile in pursuit of the revitalization of the Mapuche people. Manzanares is currently premiering her first feature documentary, Mankewenüy, friend of the condor, starring Anahí Mariluan, and finishing her second, Vuelve a navegar el Wampo.

Title:	Warmi Luna-Gunaa Sol
Release Date:	2015
Runtime:	5:39 minutes
Director:	Frida Muenala
Language:	Spanish with English subtitles
Countries/Territories:	Ecuador
Community/Nation:	Kichwa and Zapotec
Synopsis:	This work explores the feelings of Kichwa Otavalo women in the face of Western thought, which marks their lives from birth, and how this in turn affects the construction of their identity.
Director Bio:	Kichwa-Zapotec filmmaker Frida Muenala studied Film and Video at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. In May 2011 she made her first documentary Huellas del tiempo (Footprints of Time), which received the COCOA award for "Best Documentary 2012." She has directed the fiction short films Ella, Un buen día, Uyana, and feature documentary Wamri pachakutik. In 2013, Muenala helped edit, run, and sell the limited television series Shukma, one of the first programs made by her people that was broadcast on Ecuadorian national television. From 2012 to 2015, she worked on the feature film Killa, and subsequently worked in production for the documentary feature Allpamanda about the historical memory of the Indigenous movement of the Ecuadorian Amazon. She is currently in pre-production for the narrative feature film Corazón de la tierra/Allpamamapa shunku, winner of the 2018 ICCA Development Fund and the 2021 IFCI Fiction Feature Production Fund.

Title:	Fôlego Vivo
Release Date:	2021
Runtime:	25 minutes
Director:	Juma Jandaíra and Associação dos Índios Cariris do Poço Dantas-Umari
Language:	Portuguese with subtitles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese
Countries/Territories:	Brazil
Community/Nation:	Kariri
Synopsis:	The Kariri people, located in the Chapada do Araripe, a rural area in northeastern Brazil, reflect on water. The community tells of the Indigenous myth of recreating the world together with water as against the capitalist developmental myth of controlling water and human and non-human bodies inhabiting the San Francisco River.
Director Bio:	Juma Jandaíra is a postdoctoral researcher working with the SSHRC-funded Partnership Grant, Hemispheric Encounters. Jandaíra seeks to listen to and learn from plant secrets. They move in the friction between the arts of the body, undisciplined pedagogy, and the Indigenous struggle for environmental justice. They are part of the social movements Retomada Kariri and the Indigenous Cariri of Poço Dantas-Umari Association. They activate the audiovisual springboard United Against Colonization: Many Eyes, Only One Heart for collective creation of other symbolic forms of self-representation of the Abya Yala first nation.

4 Week Four
December 2 – 5, 2022

Title:	"Trafkintun" feat. Waikil con banda acústica (Sesión en Vivo en la Ruka)
Release Date:	2019
Runtime:	5:33 minutes
Director:	Gerardo Quezada
Language:	Mapuzungun and Spanish
Countries/Territories:	Ngulumapu (Chile)
Community/Nation:	Mapuche
Synopsis:	“Trafkintun” is a song inspired by the ülkantun (traditional Mapuche song) of my maternal grandmother Francisca Huaiquil. Through her song, she makes visible the values and ties of friendship. The song is a call to strengthen this traditional practice, which is maintained in some places in the Mapuche territory, Wallmapu, where families from different locations gather to share and exchange not only material things, but also knowledge of the word.
Director Bio:	Jaime Cuyanao Venegas is a Mapuche artist, who under the name of Waikil, makes rap music in Spanish and Mapuzungun (traditional Mapuche language). He is the son of a Mapuche father and mother from the areas of Vilcún and Traiguén respectively, and although he was born in the city of Santiago, he spent part of his childhood in the south of Chile (Traiguén), where he lived in the countryside with his maternal grandmother, with whom he maintained an intense connection. Since living in Santiago, he has begun to strengthen his Mapuche identity and, through music, to recount the everyday experiences of his people in both rural and urban areas. Currently, the lyricist together with his band are working on an acoustic format, through which they have explored new sounds, fusing genres of Latin American music, Mapuche music (ayekawe) and rap, building a mix of rhythms, chords, and melodies that are intertwined with rhymes in Spanish and Mapuzungun. His band is made up of Lorena Manzo (Kultrún and Peruvian Cajón), Francisco Herrera (Violin and Udu), Cristofer Collio (Guitar and Pifilka), Vicente Fabres (Bass), and Jaime Cuyanao (Voice and Mapuche instruments).

Title:	Ma's House
Release Date:	2022
Runtime:	9:00 minutes
Director:	Jeremy Dennis
Language:	English
Countries/Territories:	US
Community/Nation:	Shinnecock
Synopsis:	Ma’s House was once the heart of a community for the Shinnecock peoples, who have remained in their same homelands for 10,000 years. As Ma’s grandson, artist and photographer Jeremy Dennis is on a quest to restore the family home to its central role as a community gathering place for a new generation of diverse artists. Through personal mementos, intimate narratives, and a touch of celebrity gossip, Dennis and his family reveal generations of history and hope contained within the walls of their home.
Director Bio:	Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary fine art photographer and a tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY. In his work, he explores Indigenous identity, culture, and assimilation. He has been part of several group and solo exhibitions and holds an MFA from Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, and a BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, NY. He currently lives and works in Southampton, New York on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.

Title:	Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: Essa Terra É Nossa! / This Land Is Our Land!
Release Date:	2020
Runtime:	70 minutes
Directors:	Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, Roberto Romero
Languages:	Portuguese and Guaraní with Portuguese, Spanish, and English subtitles
Countries/Territories:	Brazil
Community/Nation:	Maxakali
Synopsis:	In the past, white people did not exist and we lived hunting with our yãmĩyxop spirits. But the whites came, cut down the forests, dried up the rivers, and drove the animals away. Today, our long trees are gone, the whites have surrounded us, and our land is tiny. But our yãmĩyxop are very strong and they teach us the stories and songs of the ancients who walked here.
Director Bio:	Isael Maxakali is a filmmaker, teacher, and visual artist. He directed the films Tatakox (2007); Xokxop pet (2009); Yiax Kaax - Fim do Resguardo (2010); Xupapoynãg (2011); Kotkuphi (2011); Yãmîy (2011); Mîmãnãm (2011); Quando os yãmîy vêm dançar conosco (2011); Kakxop pit hãmkoxuk xop te yũmũgãhã (Iniciação dos filhos dos espíritos da terra, 2015), Konãgxeka: o Dilúvio Maxakali (2016), and Yãmiyhex: as mulheres-espírito (2019). In 2020, he won the PIPA Online Award, one of the main contemporary art awards in Brazil. Sueli Maxakali is a filmmaker, teacher, and photographer. She co-directed the films Quando os yãmiy vêm dançar conosco (2011) and Yãmiyhex: as mulheres-espírito (2019). In 2009, she published the photo book Koxuk Xop Imagem (Beco do Azougue Editorial) about the rituals and daily life of Aldeia Verde, with photographs of Maxakali women. Carolina Canguçu received her masters degree in Social Communication from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and currently coordinates the Interprogramming of TV Educativa da Bahia. She is an editor, researcher, film teacher, and curator of documentary exhibitions. She works with traditional peoples in audiovisual training courses. She has been a member of the Filmes de Quintal collective for 12 years, which organizes forumdoc.bh, Belo Horizonte's Documentary and Ethnographic Film Festival. Roberto Romero has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is a member of Associação Filmes de Quintal and one of the organizers of the forumdoc.bh, Belo Horizonte's Documentary and Ethnographic Film Festival. He was assistant director for the feature film Yãmĩyhex: the women-spirit (Sueli and Isael Maxakali, 2019).

5 Week Five
December 9 – 12, 2022

Title:	Os espíritos só entendem o nosso idioma (The Spirits Only Understand Our Language)
Release Date:	2019
Runtime:	5:00 minutes
Director:	Cileuza Jemjusi, Robert Tamuxi, and Valdeilson Jolasi
Language:	Portuguese and Manoki with English, Spanish or Portuguese subtitles
Countries/Territories:	Brazil
Community/Nation:	Manoki and Myky
Synopsis:	Only four elders of the Manoki population in the Brazilian Amazon still speak their Indigenous language, an imminent risk of losing the means by which they communicate with their spirits. Although this is a difficult topic, young people decide to tell in images and words their version of this long history of relations with non-Indigenous people, talking about their pains, challenges, and desires. Despite all the difficulties of the current context, struggle and hope echo in various dimensions of the short film, indicating that “the Manoki language will survive!”
Director Bio:	Cileuza Jemjusi, Robert Tamuxi, and Valdeilson Jolasi are founding members of the Ijã Mytyli Cinema Collective of Manoki and Myky Indigenous people. The three directors are young leaders in the Manoki Paredão village, located in the Brazilian Amazon. This was their first film, after which Jemjusi made another documentary entitled Piny Pyta. The three directors are currently collaborating on future film projects about Manoki culture. André Tupxi Lopes is an anthropologist and filmmaker, conducting his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, with a research internship at New York University. He is a founding member of Ijã Mytyli Cinema Collective of Manoki and Myky Indigenous people, with whom he has been working since 2008. He has participated in the training of Indigenous filmmakers from seven different peoples in Brazil, with whom he has directed and produced collaborative documentaries in the last decade.

Title:	Equilíbrio
Release Date:	2020
Runtime:	12 minutes
Director:	Olinda Muniz Wanderley
Language:	Portuguese with English and Portuguese subtitles
Countries/Territories:	Brazil
Community/Nation:	Tupinambá, Pataxó hãhãhãe
Synopsis:	Told through the storytelling of Kaapora, an Indigneous spiritual entity, the reality of the human condition on Earth is expressed. There is nowhere to run or hide when it comes to confronting our civilization’s destructive relationship with our life-giving planet. It is our very existence that is at risk in the face of our collectively self-centered habits of destruction.
Director Bio:	Olinda Tupinambá, Indigenous of the Tupinambá and Pataxó hãhãhãe people, is a journalist, filmmaker, and environmental activist. She has been working with video arts since the end of 2015. Between documentaries, narrative films, and performance, she has produced and directed nine independent audiovisual works and curated several film festivals and shows, including the Cine Kurumin Indigenous Film Festival (2020, 2021) and Mostra Lugar de Mulher é no Cinema (2021, 2022). Wanderley is the producer of two film exhibitions, Amotara - Olhares das Mulheres Indígenas (2021) and Paraguaçu de Cinema Indígena.

Title:	*Mujeres Espíritu/Spirit Women*
Release Date:	2020
Runtime:	43 minutes
Director:	Francisco Huichaqueo
Language:	Tzotsil, Mapuzungun, Quechua, and Spanish with English subtitles
Countries/Territories:	Chile
Community/Nation:	Mapuche
Synopsis:	This film weaves together a collective portrait of five women united by spirituality and poetry, five women who challenge the camera with their words. They don’t know each other personally, but the force of their declamatory speech, unique to each of their territories, brings them together in a filmic “braiding” that bonds them forever. Tzotzil, Mapuzungun, Quechua, and Spanish, are four beautiful languages that form a semantic field that is not only spoken word, but is also enriched by the sonority of each mother tongue transporting us on a spiritual journey with each woman and her territory.
Director Bio:	Francisco Huichaqueo is an artist, filmmaker, and curator. He was born in 1977 in the city of Valdivia (Ainil), in southern Chile, in the Gulumapu territory, west of the Andes Mountains, that is part of the Wallmapu. In 2001, he received a BA in visual arts and in 2013 an MFA in documentary film, both from the University of Chile. His main means of expression are video installation, film, and performance. His work addresses issues that concern both lineage and the Mapuche experience, laying out a nation's worldview, together with its social landscape, history, and culture. His video art installations have been exhibited in outstanding solo shows such as Kalül Trawün (2010/2011) at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago de Chile; Wenupelon (2015/2021) at the Museum of Visual Arts, Santiago de Chile; Malón Wiño (2017) at the Matta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Trig Metawe Kura (2022) at the Pereira Palace, Santiago de Chile. His films have also been showcased in various international festivals and biennials. Huichaqueo is currently Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts and Humanities in University of Concepción.

Events

Indigenous Cinema ’22—Images to Postpone the End of the World

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Week One
November 11 – 14, 2022

Ixim Ulew

A vacina

New York, just another city/ New York, petei tetã ve rive

Tiam/The Return (El retorno)

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Week Two
November 18 – 21, 2022

"2050" feat. Jhon Jota "el indio del Rap" (Nasa)

Seed Mother: Coming Home

“ᎠᏍᎦᏯ ᎦᏅᎯᏓ" (Long Man)

Shash Jaa' (Bears Ears)

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Week Three
November 25 – 28, 2022

"Sin Combate" feat. Anahi Mariluán

Warmi Luna-Gunaa Sol

Fôlego Vivo

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Week Four
December 2 – 5, 2022

"Trafkintun" feat. Waikil con banda acústica (Sesión en Vivo en la Ruka)

Ma's House

Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: Essa Terra É Nossa! / This Land Is Our Land!

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Week Five
December 9 – 12, 2022

Os espíritos só entendem o nosso idioma (The Spirits Only Understand Our Language)

Equilíbrio

Mujeres Espíritu/Spirit Women

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Indigenous Cinema ’22—Images to Postpone the End of the World

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Week One November 11 – 14, 2022

Ixim Ulew

A vacina

New York, just another city/ New York, petei tetã ve rive

Tiam/The Return (El retorno)

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Week One
November 11 – 14, 2022